so these overlays have been between a book for at least 24 hours mine stayed
for a few good weeks and I didn't have the chance to do anything with them so
they're pretty good they're really flat they're not that shiny I mean let me
check if I can compare it with because I sprayed this think so
this is shiniest but then you can see on the on the on the edges it's a lot
shinier so I know that when I put it in the car and there is sunshine coming on
the dashboard and this really it's really good as as good as the factory
produced one so they got two which are roughly about the same they have this
backing just to make it slightly sort of a rigid
this is the one that fairly the same design at that side, but on the other has
got these green letters so when you put it on I mean you can't quite see it you
have to put a light at the back there is a slight green tinge if you look it
from the light otherwise they are white this was just an experiment you don't need to
be you don't need to have a green so the next phase is really to cut them
out, basically put them and put them in the car and see how they look so for
cutting I have this scalpel but it's just a piece I broke the
handle so this scalpel I mean that's all I have you the best is to buy a hobby
craft knife from one of the hobby craft shops because it's much thinner edge
this is with the scalpel it was for different
purposes but still works so once you cut it so what I try to do I cut them as
close as possible to do to the edge and then one once you've cut that one out
then I use and then use a filing set to really smooth and make it really round
so basically I'll have one of these files and we'll file it to make it
really smooth and be close so this is really you can you can you can touch
this and it doesn't smudge anything so it's actually actually pretty good so
which one should I start with so let's say I'll start with that one I'm not
really filming the whole thing is this will take forever on the three three
sets so I'll show you just a few of the holes how it and this is really the most
difficult is the square bit that's really the most difficult because you
have to be really close and then make it straight edge but kind of works it's
no it's not that bad you have to be just a bit more careful so let's start on with
any hole, I tend to really cut in the overall I'll do it with scissors at the
end because it just easier to hold it like that in and then cut so okay let's
see what shall we cut, let's start with that one so I tend to really rotate
that one quite a bit and I have to put some force into it and as close as you
can get them in it doesn't need to really be close I mean you can file it
so it makes life easier when you're filing it if it's slightly closer to the
edge otherwise you file for quite a while
that's not quite close but that's right bit more so here we go get that one out
so I'll try to also to cut it close otherwise I'll file it forever
bit more
you
and that's and a good
that's roughly all right there is a bit of a white edge so I'll file to the
black, now filing, it's quite a thing, you basically basically just go around and
just file until it you can you cannot see white but you can see black
it's getting there almost so I have a another file that's
slightly better so this one is really round and fairly thin so it does the
first job so this is a slight curved edge here so I can and I'm not too sure
if you can see but this is slightly curved here so I can make it smooth I
can make the hole smooth
okay so that's the end result, I filed it quite a bit there will be a few white
edges around here but I mean the Black Caps go on top so this is not really
visible at all and there are a few dust particles but you can you can brush them aside
later on so I don't really file it very very close to the edge because I can I
can really with a slight black marker I can put some black so it doesn't it's
invisible but the black caps come on top of this so you cannot really see this
white bit at all so that's for this hole so I have to do
the rest so this is how it looks at the back so I have to do the rest so it's
that one and that one, and these two and then the circle and then small so
it's quite a few so I'll either speed up the video or or not film it at all, so I've
cut the holes that one, that one these I didn't really bother and to be very
precise with these and these are behind the bezel behind the plastic so
they're not really seen so it doesn't really matter
um so the last thing is that square which is the most difficult part if I
can if I can do that right and it's really difficult but not too difficult
basically try to be slightly off edge
see you so not quite still stuck
okay so all the holes are cut , that one as well I mean I've left quite
a bit of edge so I'll try to get closer with the scalpel and then file all of
them and this is only the first so I've cut all the holes so you can see my
glove and the back so I have not really filed it down completely there is still
a bit of a white edge so so the next thing is to cut the pattern outside so
it will be just the black pattern and then I'll put it between a book another
24 hours just to straighten it a bit I mean from from handling it's it's curved
slightly so for these slightly white bits I mean I could have I could have
filed it but I'm not too sure that this filing actually peels off slightly of
the ink the black ink so it will always be visible so the beauty of the black
ink is that you can have a black marker and really touch it up at the edges once
it straight, I'll film that thing as well and the square also a bit difficult I
mean it's not I mean you can see the white edges from from underneath but
otherwise it's it's it's it's I've cut it fairly well so now I have to cut them
that's really busy you have a scissors and basically cut it out it's
not really nothing nothing with that basically
so I'll cut it a bit to handle it a little bit easier
the glue is pretty strong and it stays
and there we go and that's the pattern that's it so I'll have to
cut the rest file them touch up with a bit of a black marker so I can do the black
market now just to have it I have a sharpie and another one
this is thinner than Sharpie so this is really for fine touches and the sharpie
is a bit thick so I try to do it with it with this corner with the really so I
put it down and just touch it up very slightly kind of inside and I'll see
what's left after
so it's almost there
that's it it's perfectly black now and I slightly put some black mark on the
edges but you can't quite see it and probably it will rub off probably not
that's it let's see if you can because there will be LCD underneath so don't
really see wanna see white edges here so that's why I put the sharpie marker so I
have to do about the same of these but these are not not that crucial this will
this will be on this we have the black caps on top so this is not really as
crucial
so there we go it's a completely black everywhere so I will stick these
I'll do the other two designs stick this between yeah there is a bit of a
see through here from the from the marker but that's alright you don't see this so
I'll stick this in between the book because it's slightly curving and you
can see how it's curved slightly that's okay so to get flat and that's it